Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make matters more difficult for the politicians, the Hatch Act of 1939 forbids federal appointees from politicking. "Patronage isn't much of a political weapon any more," said a Midwesterner. "When you do get a guy a job, he quickly tells you he's 'Hatched.' Sure he owes you his job-but he can't work for you. He wraps himself in the Hatch Act and says he's got to pretend not to know you any longer...
Many thanks for all your enlightening news on Chou En-lai [TIME, May 10] - the kind of information so badly needed. You handled the deadliest weapon against the threatening Communistic . . . systems in the widespread publication of the naked truth on the personalities of these Red gods and the crimson trails of their careers ... I have no doubt that the terrible truth of such consistent information will have greater effect than the now flourishing hate campaigns launched by the Russian press...
Among other things, it created a whole new white-collar class, largely ruined penmanship, made correspondence vastly easier (though not necessarily better), inaugurated the age of carbon copies and their useless proliferation in innumerable filing cabinets, handed writers an alarmingly facile weapon of self-expression. Anybody who wants to know almost anything concerning the typewriter, can find it in Historian Richard N. Current's The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It and Journalist Bruce Bliven Jr.'s The Wonderful Writing Machine. Current's book is a detailed history of the typewriter's origins. Bliven...
When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
...money rather than wait for her to leave him. A solicitous sort who doesn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily, Milland arranges to spend the night of the murder on the town with his wife's lover (Robert Cummings) as his alibi. For his murder weapon, he selects an old college acquaintance who is amoral as an alley cat. The scene in which Milland bends Actor Dawson to his will is a theatrical delight...